Paying Proposition

Like a farmer surveying a sugar maple for the
right place to cut for sap, Seattle's paunchy, cigar-smoking Promoter
Arthur J. Ritchie watches the public with a veiled and contemplative
eye. This week Art Ritchie was watching a big one, and the sap bucket
was filling up fast. Art Ritchie's newest idea: why not band the
nation's Japanese-haters together and put the whole business on a
paying basis?

Last year Promoter Ritchie drew a nice full bucket with a book entitled
The Pacific Northwest Goes to War; he charged businessmen $200 a page
for eulogy, $50 apiece for a picture,...